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This year marked the 67th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW67) and NGO-CSW forum which took place at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York for two weeks. Being hosted physically after a gap of three years due to COVID-19 pandemic and associated travel restrictions, it was heartening to note that ...

Since 1904, the World YWCA and World YMCA have traditionally collaborated together for the World Week of Prayer and World Fellowship. Celebrated each year on the second week of November, both organisations join efforts to produce a booklet with a theme, a set of bible studies for each day, and an annual bible reading plan ...

On August 12 every year, the world celebrates the International Youth Day (IYD), an occasion to spotlight the transformative power of youth in changing our world for the better. This year IYD is celebrated  under the theme “Intergenerational solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages“[1] in contribution to the achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) by ...

“When young women have the space support to rise, they do so. When they have the space to practice the leadership & make change happen, they do so“ August 4, 2022: Women leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region gathered in Bangkok, Thailand to formally launch the RiseUp! young women leadership and advocacy initiative. Commencing in ...

Global Youth Mobilization initiative team meets in Geneva to reinforce the commitment and collaboration of Big Six Youth Organisations and World Health organisation In the second week of May, CEOs, youth representatives and project team members from Big Six youth organisations, and colleagues from World Health Organisation and UN Foundation, leading the Global Youth Mobilization ...

As a technical partner in the YW4A consortium, Equality Now is building the capacity of young women and women rights organizations to develop national advocacy strategies that will be informed by country-specific legal gaps on discriminatory laws and practices that perpetuate violence against women and girls. Furthermore, their exclusion from decision-making spaces. In addition, we ...

Peace with justice has been a constant vision and goal throughout the more than 160 years of YWCA history. As a global movement, YWCA leaders have passed more than 40 resolutions about women, peace and security constantly demanding justice and the accountability of the perpetrators of human rights violations. World YWCA’s unique, bold and transformative ...

On April 4, 2022, World YWCA and its partners officially launched the Young Women for Awareness, Agency, Advocacy and Accountability (YW4A) Partnership and Initiative. This was done through a global webinar that unpacked the fundamentals of the partnership and initiative. The webinar was moderated by Adelle Onyango, a media personality and active sexual and gender-based ...

World YWCA, though the YW4A programme, has for the first time, since the development of its RiseUp! Leadership training model in 2010, rolled out the training to MENA and the Africa Regions. RiseUp! provides peer to peer leadership and advocacy training to young women and supports them to build knowledge, skills and networks to take ...